Free and Discounted Mystery & Thriller Books
Prepare for suspense, excitement, and plenty of tense situations within these mystery and thriller selections! From high-speed thrillers to tense caper stories to fascinating police procedurals, these books will keep you entertained and enthralled for hours on end. Here's a selection of mysteries, legal thrillers, crime thrillers, spy thrillers, mystery thrillers, cozys and more!
Hidden Faults
When Frank Smiley woke up this morning, he thought today was going to be like any other day. He was wrong! Scott Ross, his friend and fellow scientist, is being framed for murder. As a conspiracy between corrupt politicians and ruthless businessmen unfolds, Frank must race against time to save his friend and family from ... Read more
Free: The New America
In 2045 after WWIII, America experiences widespread death and destruction. Almost half the country flees to a safe zone between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. The government establishes a new Capital in Nashville, Tennessee. This is “The New America.” At the time, the country was governed by four powerful men known as the “Presidential ... Read more
Deadly Flip: A Home Renovator Mystery
Flipping houses can be deadly! Katelyn takes on a home renovation in Hiptown, Minnesota, that “has history…a murder” at BFF Myra’s urging. What was she thinking? Besides the young woman being killed by the home’s prior owner, the girl didn’t get the justice she deserved. The killer got away with murder! Could the victim’s restless ... Read more
Free: Fisherman’s Court
Finn Carroll is a failed artist living a marginal existence in his dead parents’ home. So why would a team of killers want to murder him and frame it as a suicide? Finn survives the encounter to discover the killers have left behind a “suicide note” detailing a dark incident from Finn’s past no one ... Read more
Panic’s Of Tremble1
Kirck Spence is searching for clues, while his wife is missing. Kirck Spence does not understand what is going on, and something to do about a Haunted House. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Where Dandelions Sway
On a Friday afternoon in the small town of Glen Ridge, three armed men invade the home of Paul and Alexis Hudson. The Hudson’s find themselves in a life or death situation where tempers flare, demands soar and repercussions loom. On the surface, the invasion appears to be a simple robbery. Until one of the ... Read more
Primal Creatures
French Quarter private investigator and recovering alcoholic Wyatt Thomas climbs back up on the wagon and accepts a dangerous job from a movie producer to investigate a bizarre and gory murder at an exclusive resort for actors and artists on an island south of New Orleans. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Case of the Dead Dowager (Michaela McPherson Book 2)
Retired homicide detective Michaela McPherson and the aging Countess Dorothy Borghase team up again – this time to match wits with two serial killers stalking children, women and the elderly. When Dottie Borghase’s friend Camilla Rothrock collapses at a lunch gathering of old friends, the countess’s only concern is to dial 911 for help. But ... Read more
The Moment Between
The Moment Between is a psychological thriller that brings death to life through the story of Doctor Hackett Metzger, a neurologist who struggles with grief four years after losing his wife when he becomes involved in a medical study of near-death experiences and meets a woman with a dangerous past. Hackett is reluctantly involved in ... Read more
Free: WOLF: A Suspense Thriller (Jessica James Mysteries Book 1)
She wants her degree. But she just became a suspect of first-degree murder… Jessica James is broke and counting down the days until she can defend her philosophy thesis. Desperate to get out of her grubby attic digs, she and her friends break into her professor’s office…only to find her adviser dead in the tub. ... Read more
Death on the New Moon
Michael Lindley’s captivating and twisting tale of love, betrayal, and murder in the Low Country of South Carolina and the continuing love affair of Hanna Walsh and Alex Frank. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
From the Outside In
A five-year-old little girl is brutally murdered by her mother’s boyfriend. His true identity is questioned and questionable from the very beginning. Her mother, a social worker, is found culpable but is not the primary killer. The people responsible for her protection have ultimately failed the little girl…and not just once. The story makes national ... Read more
Never Nerida
When expectant mother Livia Karras spontaneously falls victim to aquagenic urticaria–an allergy where a single drop of water against her skin could be fatal–doctors determine her condition to be purely psychosomatic. Psychologist Elliot Chiles is assigned to her case. He suspects she is subconsciously sabotaging her own pregnancy due to unresolved guilt over a traumatic ... Read more
Unspeakable Grudges
In this thriller, a Denver private eye’s legal investigation has ties to an ongoing multiple-murder case. Get it today to discover why Kirkus Reviews called it “a laudable mystery galvanized by a series-worthy gumshoe.” $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Ten Times Guilty: A Gripping Crime Thriller of Passion, Brutality, and Rage
A single mother struggles for worth after a savage attack, a police sergeant seeks redemption for a crime he didn’t realize he had committed – until the victim dies. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Payback
Alex Dunn was a good cop until a bad domestic call leaves two of his fellow officers dead and his partner bound to a wheelchair. Making things worse, the man responsible walks on a technicality. Shortly after, Alex is recruited into a secret organization that targets criminals who manage to skirt the system and remain ... Read more
City of Broken Lights
A mysterious summons to another world. News no man wants to hear. Old acquaintances from the past, some of whom Sully would prefer to have never seen again. A job that pays too well to turn down. In the hot, gritty streets of the run down industrial district in the city of New Paris, Sully ... Read more
The Monster
A college student has a strained relationship with his mother and ex-girlfriend. When he sees his ex and best friend together at a Halloween Mixer, he becomes enraged. Things turn when a mysterious, puppet-themed student attacks the couple, leaving the protagonist seemingly to blame. Things escalate quickly, and the narrator soon finds himself framed for ... Read more
On The Devils Side of Heaven
With the drop of a judge’s gavel, Walt Walker has finally lost everything. The badge and gun he used to carry and the moral certainty of right and wrong, good and evil that used to keep him grounded. Now Walt, sans gun, gets his badges from an Army Navy store. He spends his days in ... Read more
Free: Santa Fe Mojo
Lone-wolf gritty PI at the end of his career, dealing with health issues and bad life decisions. Classical hard-boiled murder mystery with lots of suspects. Unique Santa Fe setting. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Pseudo President
Pseudo President takes readers through murder, romance, intrigue, mystery and the fraudulent voting technologies widely used in the last several elections, based upon actual events, court cases, news reports, and persons. The main character is a former Special Operations US Marine. Voters want to know their vote counts. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Murder at Cluster Springs Raceway: A Brandon Hall Mystery
With the help of friends, Brandon uncovers evidence which ties the raceway death to the rapidly changing political landscape in the United States. Radicalized groups, promoting violence on college campuses and cities, have found their way into rural southern Virginia. Free on Kindle... Read more
The Blood-Dimmed Tide
On trial for his life. On the trail of a serial killer. While on trial for wrongful death, John Jordan must catch a cunning killer who is using the chaos of the decimated post-Hurricane Michael landscape to hide his heinous acts of cold-blooded murder. John is not only fighting for his very soul but that ... Read more
The Monster
A college student has a strained relationship with his mother and ex-girlfriend. When he sees his ex and best friend together at a Halloween Mixer, he becomes enraged. Things turn when a mysterious, puppet-themed student attacks the couple, leaving the protagonist seemingly to blame. Things escalate quickly, and the narrator soon finds himself framed for ... Read more
The Predator and The Prey
A burned out, cynical cop. A serial killer who loves the hunt as much as the kill. Corrupt politicians in bed with a crooked Chief of Detectives. At the center of it all is a beautiful young woman with a troubled past. If you think its Los Angeles in the 1950’s you’re wrong. It’s the ... Read more
Death on Canvas
While painting on location in one of her family’s hayfields, artist Jessie O’Bourne absentmindedly brushes a note of turquoise onto the canvas – a color she sees out near the haystack. Curious about what added the lovely spot of color, the artist walks over to discover a tennis shoe. The mate is still on the ... Read more
Jackal: A Jessica James Mystery
Philosophy student Jessica James is desperate to find her real father. Broke and crashing with a stripper friend in Vegas, all she knows is that he’s supposedly a washed-up magician. But all bets are off when she discovers a naked guy in a hotel bathtub missing a kidney… She’s in Sin City to search for ... Read more
A Body Resurrected
Tina Leggs oversees the everyday affairs of the Graham-Arlee museum in Almay, California. She has no idea that the mummy exhibit drawing huge crowds, is the same Demen that her ancestor, Mira, bravely fought centuries ago. It’s the 21st century, and he’s returned. Enter Q, the handsome bounty hunter who’s sent to stop his ... Read more
Dead Men Don’t Chew Gum
Rika isn’t in Bolo five minutes before she’s run off the road, trips over a dead body, and is arrested. And she’s not sure about Nick Owen, the lawyer forced to help her, even when he’s shirtless, in a cowboy hat, holding an extra-long hose. (Okay, maybe then.) Can Nick and Rika solve this case ... Read more
Bourbon Street
Desiree Blanc wants to be a gun-moll. Born into poverty in rural northern Mississippi, Dorothy Jellnick grew into an ash-blonde beauty. Everyone told her to go to Hollywood, show the movie people a real southern belle. She made it as far as Bourbon Street, New Orleans, where she became Desiree Blanc, a white-hot stripper at ... Read more
The Run
Caught within the imbalance of his marriage, work life, and haunting childhood memories; Carter routinely takes to his neighborhood streets to relieve stress with a nightly run. One particularly hot Florida night, he finds he’s not alone. An unexpected deadly encounter quickly turns Carter’s life upside-down, forcing him to make choices he might later regret. ... Read more
Free: Pillow Talk
Police Detective Lori Daniels has a knack for picking the wrong guy as a lover. This complicates her next big assignment. Imagine two ex-lovers and a current one suddenly becoming involved in your next big assignment. One wants you to suffer. One will try to kill you. One is a double agent. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Widow’s Husband
Allan Tuttle’s wife identifies his body, the victim of a homicide, and no one is more surprised than he is. Framed for his own murder, Allan Tuttle is in a struggle for his life, his freedom and even his identity. His wife, Sarah, insists he is not who he says he is. The police are ... Read more
Free: Sam’s Song
Sam’s Song is book one in the Amazon #1 Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series combines a psychological mystery with humour and romance, and can be read as a stand-alone. The series is currently being translated into twelve languages and has readers in over thirty countries. Free on Kindle.... Read more
A Sticky Inheritance
When criminal lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes inherits her uncle’s maple syrup farm, she sees her chance to escape a life full of murderers and liars. For half a day at least. As Nicole closes in on her uncle’s killer, she not only risks becoming the next victim but also starts to wonder if knowing the truth ... Read more
Free: Lies We Never See
From the author of the Amazon Kindle #1 selection for Mystery Thriller and Suspense, “The EmmaLee Affairs”, his next intriguing and twisting tale of love and loss, betrayal and murder. Hanna Walsh’s husband is found murdered in Charleston, South Carolina. His failed land deal leaves her family and finances in ruins. The FBI thinks she ... Read more
The Asset
The discovery of a terrorist training camp in the Amazon Jungles of Venezuela and a coup in Caracas launches CIA Operative Pete Maddox into a thrilling showdown against a deadly terrorist cell and the sadistic head of the secret police. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Wicked for Hire
Sometimes, the opportunity of lifetime comes bustin’ your door… without even offering to pay for the damages… Medical student Amanda Meyer thought she had her life all planned out until people started dying the moment they touched her. Being cleared of any wrongdoing didn’t stop the medical school from expelling her, and it didn’t rid ... Read more
The Singularity Witness
The Singularity Witness explores an intersection of science and medicine. Neurologist Thomas Parker and FBI agent Kate Morgan unlock secrets that start with murder and abduction. Radical breakthroughs. Murder. Secrets. Parker and Morgan are faced with saving the singularity witness and finding a way to survive. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Songbird
Based on an actual unsolved murder case! When detective Jack Ryder is going skiing with his family, the body of a teenage boy turns up in the creek behind their cabin. Soon, more bodies are found, and Jack Ryder digs into the case that seems to be anything but ordinary. What happened on the night ... Read more
